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Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) is easily one of the best Hollywood blockbusters of the last twenty years. That film by director Gore Verbinski mixed a fun and sprawling plot with incredibly entertaining and surprisingly three-dimensional characters. It is an immensely re-watchable movie with its quick-witted dialogue and memorable action set pieces. It was a huge sur...[Read More]
Ten Reactions to the 2016 Academy Award Nominations
The 88th annual Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning and just about everyone has an opinion. Although most of the nominations are what we expected, there were still some surprises and a few snubs that got the internet chatting. Here is a list of our ten biggest reactions to the 2016 Academy Award nominations. [divider] 10. Inside Out Is both Snubbed and Surprised Disney/Pixar’...[Read More]
Movie Review: Black Mass
Black Mass is not necessarily a bad mob film, but it’s a mob film too concerned with emulating the cool of other, better mob films to develop any real voice of its own. Director Scott Cooper clearly had Martin Scorsese on the brain as he put this film together, but Cooper brings none of his own creative intent to the table. David O. Russell recently aped Scorsese with even wilder abandon in Americ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a rare film in today’s marketplace. A large scale movie, heavy with stars, that is also a musical. Some would argue that the age of the musical is well over with and why bother with that genre anymore? Musicals haven’t been main-stream for decades but recent history suggests that there is an audience for these spectacles during the holiday season as Les Misérables (2012), Sweeney...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Johnny Depp Goes into the Machine in Transcendence
Happy New Year, dear readers! For all of you who celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a good one, and it’s at last time for us to ring in 2014. This slightly belated first Trailer Trashin’ column of the year takes a look at another of my anticipated films of this year, Transcendence. Premise: Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of artificial intelligenc...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Super Bowl XLVII Movie Spot Roundup!
Well, another Super Bowl has come and gone – congratulations to the Baltimore Ravens on their victory, and good job to the San Francisco 49ers, too. But for people like me, who are cinephiles and not football fans, the main thing that the Big Game has to offer is the new TV spots for upcoming movies. This year, there were seven movie spots during Super Bowl XLVII, and on this week’s Trailer ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Saddle Up with the Lone Ranger
It may only be the beginning of October, but it’s never too early for the studios to start hyping their slate of 2013 movies. On this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’, I aim my film journalism six-guns at the first trailer for next summer’s The Lone Ranger. Premise: Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid...[Read More]
Movie Review: Dark Shadows
Having never watched the original 1960s daily soap opera Dark Shadows and holding a steady grudge against director Tim Burton for the abrasive Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland (not to mention Johnny Depp’s last run of disappointments), I went into Burton’s gothic-comic update of the original camp-cult favorite with more than a little trepidation. After two hours of gorge...[Read More]
Win Tickets to Dark Shadows
Congratulations to the winners of our “Win Tickets to Dark Shadows” contest! Here they are: Gary G, Kristen G., polwu, Momto4babas, Donaldthemovieman, Jessica Boroniec, Kandace Meade, softrose, KathleenB, Lempo4, RRichmond, Aswallow14, Billy0806, Lauren T, Nixie72, Teddi, Diana R, Dkitain, Msdoreen, ryan1476, Oldham_april, Teehee3syd, shondira, Daddysb4by, and Charisseryden. If you won, you should...[Read More]
Movie Review: 21 Jump Street
I grew up on a steady diet of 21 Jump Street, so when this remake was announced, I was pissed. Visions of Starsky & Hutch with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson went through my head. It seems like the juices at the old Hollywood creative well have been dried up for a few years now, since they’ve been shoving subpar remake after subpar remake down our throats lately. I honestly thought 21 Jump Street...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Rum Diary
At one point in Bruce Robinson’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thomspon’s experiential novel The Rum Diary, a turtle with jewels glued to its shell catches the sight of American journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) – the animal is a metaphor for the wanton avarice of the tax-evading businessmen luring Paul into a scheme, but it also serves as an apt description for this pretty but slothful take on Thompso...[Read More]
Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Some of you may have abandoned the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise after walking out of At World’s End going, “So…what just happened?” Wanting to create a nice, little epic trilogy, the series got out of hand by throwing everything at the screen all at once, wanting to wrap up the love story of William Turner and Elizabeth Swann, the vengeance of Davy Jones, and…well, the tales of about other 9...[Read More]
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